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G A Gray Planer Mill... 50' bed
- Thread starter Bkramer12
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mmarquette
Cast Iron
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- Dec 20, 2016
Heck of a machine. Id like to see some pictures if you have em. I have no advice on machine itself. Should be some that do. Plenty on here with a lot of help and experience .
L Vanice
Diamond
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- Feb 8, 2006
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN
Richard King
Diamond
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- Jul 12, 2005
- Location
- Cottage Grove, MN 55016
I emailed the Springfield VT scraping class as one of the students owns a company and he has a couple of Gray planers. Hopefully he will come on and help. If he misses the email...I'll track him down. He's in PA too I believe. Rich
PS: sorry getting forgetful on short term stuff...sucks getting old
PS: sorry getting forgetful on short term stuff...sucks getting old
johnoder
Diamond
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- Jul 16, 2004
- Location
- Houston, TX USA
Mad Machinist
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2006
- Location
- Sharon, PA
I've had these heads apart more times than I can remember. 3 speed hydraulic clutch planetary transmission connected to a 3 speed manual planetary. They are pretty complicated and hard to get apart and even harder to get back together. Nothing comes apart easily there are all kinds of pitfalls in both dissasembly and reassembling. Lots of hyatt and XLS series bearings. If one thing goes wrong it can snowball into disaster. Gray made these to get away from the complexities of 1950's DC motor controls. A guy from Gray told me they used to have drums of planetary gears that didn't pass inspection. PM me if you need help. There are lots of things you can break if you don't know how they come apart.
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